Existence, Stability and Optimal Drug Dosage for a Reaction-Diffusion System Arising in a Cancer Treatment

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Autores principales: Morgan, Jeff, Tang, Bao Quoc, Yin, Hong-Ming
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author Morgan, Jeff
Tang, Bao Quoc
Yin, Hong-Ming
author_facet Morgan, Jeff
Tang, Bao Quoc
Yin, Hong-Ming
contents In this paper, a reaction-diffusion system modeling injection of a chemotherapeutic drug on the surface of a living tissue during a treatment for cancer patients is studied. The system describes the interaction of the chemotherapeutic drug and the normal, tumor and immune cells. We first establish well-posedness for the nonlinear reaction-diffusion system, then investigate the long-time behavior of solutions. Particularly, it is shown that the cancer cells will be eliminated assuming that its reproduction rate is sufficiently small in a short time period in each treatment interval. The analysis is then essentially exploited to study an optimal drug injection rate problem during a chemotherapeutic drug treatment for tumor cells, which is formulated as an optimal boundary control problem with constraints. For this, we show that the existence of an optimal drug injection rate through the boundary, and derive the first-order optimality condition.
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spellingShingle Existence, Stability and Optimal Drug Dosage for a Reaction-Diffusion System Arising in a Cancer Treatment
Morgan, Jeff
Tang, Bao Quoc
Yin, Hong-Ming
Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
35E20, 35K40, 35K57, 49J20, 92C50
In this paper, a reaction-diffusion system modeling injection of a chemotherapeutic drug on the surface of a living tissue during a treatment for cancer patients is studied. The system describes the interaction of the chemotherapeutic drug and the normal, tumor and immune cells. We first establish well-posedness for the nonlinear reaction-diffusion system, then investigate the long-time behavior of solutions. Particularly, it is shown that the cancer cells will be eliminated assuming that its reproduction rate is sufficiently small in a short time period in each treatment interval. The analysis is then essentially exploited to study an optimal drug injection rate problem during a chemotherapeutic drug treatment for tumor cells, which is formulated as an optimal boundary control problem with constraints. For this, we show that the existence of an optimal drug injection rate through the boundary, and derive the first-order optimality condition.
title Existence, Stability and Optimal Drug Dosage for a Reaction-Diffusion System Arising in a Cancer Treatment
topic Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
35E20, 35K40, 35K57, 49J20, 92C50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02227